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Saturday, 27 October 2007

SOME TALESwait shy until they tell themselves..and this is one of them.It has sat long time in the corner of a tree with a whistle on its lips and thoughts on its shoulders whispering to me quietly and sometimes loudly. I am not sure when it began, but today it seems to have given me its hand and a book of pages and here it is for you .. to smile to.

Some folk may have heard it first here ~ this Hermit's house, this Sanctuary for Strangeness.

I will be here from time to time and show you things on my journey, which has taken me from the Hermitageto the hills of Scotland and the love of a man who is beautiful and whose interesting path happily crossed mine a short while ago and a long age ago. This tale is ours and it will be fun in the telling .. because we have much travelling and much making of beautiful things to do.

About Me

Rima Staines is an artist using paint, wood, word, music, animation, clock-making, puppetry & story to attempt to build a gate through the hedge that grows along the boundary between this world & that. Her gate-building has been a lifelong pursuit, & she hopes to have perhaps propped aside even one spiked loop of bramble (leaving a chink just big enough for a mud-kneeling, trusting eye to glimpse the beauty there beyond), before she goes through herself.

Always stubborn about living the things that make her heart sing, Rima lives with her partner Tom and their young son in Hedgespoken - an offgrid home and travelling theatre built on a vintage Bedford RL truck.

Rima’s inspirations include the world & language of folktale; faces of people who pass her on the street; folk music & art of Old Europe & beyond; peasant & nomadic living; magics of every feather; wilderness & plant-lore; the margins of thought, experience, community & spirituality; & the beauty in otherness.

Crumbs fall from Rima’s threadbare coat pockets as she travels, & can be found collected here, where you may join the caravan.